PNP will engage legal fronts of CPP to end insurgency

August 29, 2019

The Philippine National Police ( PNP) on Thursday said they will engage all legal fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines ( CPP) in support to the call of President Rodrigo Duterte to end local insurgency.

"We support the intention of the president to end the insurgency. We will engage in all their fronts in agriculture, labor, even health... in the religious sector," said Police General Oscar Albayalde in an interview with reporters.

The PNP chief they are starting to reach out to the academic groups.

"That's why we have the national task force ELCAC (End Local Communist Armed Conflict). This is a whole nation approach, not only a government approach," he said.

Duterte last Tuesday hoped government security forces can immediately end insurgency.

Duterte warned that in the coming months there will be a ''little trouble'' for the country.

"I do not think that we can afford to wage a war another 53 years. So, I am telling the military, 'Can we end it now?' We cannot afford to pass it on to the next generation. They could no longer bear it. It has to be now," Duterte said.

"And I'm serving notice to everybody that in the coming months, it will be --- not really bloody, but there will be at least, a little trouble for our country," he added.

The communist insurgency in the Philippines is considered as longest in Asia. Ella Dionisio/DMS